The Duke's Motto

Le Bossu [The Hunchback]

Le Bossu ("The Hunchback") is a French play by Paul Féval

The original text

Translations and adaptations

Adapted in English as The Duke's Motto, or I Am Here!, a play in a prologue and four acts by John Brougham and first presented with that title at the Royal Lyceum Theatre on Saturday 10 January 1863. (Also found as The Duke's Motto)

Published by C. Whiting in 1870 as The Duke's Motto, and called "a romantic drama in three acts, and a prologue", credited to John Brougham but "Adapted By, and the Property Of, Charles Fechter".

Performance history in South Africa

1884-5: Performed by the Henry Harper Company in the new Theatre Royal, Cape Town, as part of Henry Harper's first season as lessee and manager of the venue.

Sources

D.C. Boonzaier. 1923. "My playgoing days – 30 years in the history of the Cape Town stage", in SA Review, 9 March and 24 August 1923. (Reprinted in Bosman 1980: pp. 374-439.)

F.C.L. Bosman. 1980. Drama en Toneel in Suid-Afrika, Deel II, 1856-1912. Pretoria: J.L. van Schaik: pp.325

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